What is the best way to draw one arrow surrounded by two circular arrows (see image below). This is very easy to do when you have a small number of nodes, especially so when the arrows go from one anchor (ie. south east) to another anchor (ie. north west). Things become more complex when you have >10 incoming arrow triples. What's the most painless way to have the desired affect, without having to hard code the coordinates.

Here is a diagram I have drawn (MWE below) and you can see of the ones I have manually connected, nodes 2 and 4 look the best, but they are still a little too close. Nodes 1 and 3 I have intentionally botched to make a point: if one does not explicitly state the source coordinates, the line will be automatically placed at some location (in this case south of node 1, slightly east, or vice versa for Node 3). Node 5 shows how the default configuration is less than ideal, and node 6 shows that it completely failed.

Are there any experts out there that could tell me what I am doing wrong?

I think the reason that it fails is because the style choice is not pleasing (personal opinion obviously). You can try to make the child a hexagon and use chamfered rectangle shape option for parents and grandchilds. Also I would not use reserved keys if I won't be using the tree structure explicitly. Lastly you are loading almost every possible library out there and you might not need most of them for this purpose.
– percusseFeb 10 '12 at 0:27

@percusse what are reserved keys? I think it's because I have copy pasted from other examples. Wrt. the libraries, It's because I am copy pasting the one from my main .tex file and I forgot to edit it for the MWE.
– pukFeb 10 '12 at 0:38

If you look at the manual Section 18.1 you will see that the names that you use for the styles etc. are also used for the tree structures. So if you happen to have some sort of a tree( which seems so) the name clash can cause further problems. That's what I wanted to draw your attention to.
– percusseFeb 10 '12 at 0:42

@percusse I see what you mean. I will prepend a letter/symbol to them.
– pukFeb 10 '12 at 0:44